In this work, the protagonists and chorus conclude that winter is the best season in the madrigal "When the buds are blossoming", which appears in the Act I finale of this work. The female protagonist is an orphan who sings o
In this work, the protagonists and chorus conclude that winter is the best season in the madrigal "When the buds are blossoming", which appears in the Act I finale of this work. The female protagonist is an orphan who sings of her devotion to her etiquette book in "If somebody there chanced to be", and is pursued by a character who is told about the "spectre's holiday" when the ghost of his grandfather, Sir Roderic, steps out of its portrait to sing "When the night wind howls". In its most famous number, three characters declare that their "particularly rapid, unintelligible patter / isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter."  In this spoof of the Gothic fiction craze, the patter trio "My eyes are fully open" is sung by Mad Margaret alongside the cursed Despard and Robin. The title castle is owned by members of the Murgatroyd family in, for 10 points, what comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan?
In this work, the protagonists and chorus conclude that winter is the best season in the madrigal "When the buds are blossoming", which appears in the Act I finale of this work.
{Ruddigore} [or The {Witch's Curse}]